Supernova Neutrinos, LSND and MiniBooNE

Abstract

The unique constraints on neutrino oscillations which can be obtained by measuring the energy spectrum of supernova ${\bar{\nu }}_e$'s are first discussed. The focus is on 4-neutrino mass and mixing models capable of explaining the LSND evidence of ${\bar{\nu }}_{\mu }\to {\bar{\nu }}_e$ oscillations. The potential of the Fermilab neutrino detector MiniBooNE to observe supernova neutrinos is then addressed, and a general description of the detector is given. As of May, 2002, the MiniBooNE detector is fully operational.

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures. To appear in the proceedings of 37th Rencontres de Moriond on Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, Les Arcs, France, 9-16 Mar 2002